A Louisville City FC blog

Coming off a historic 2022 season, Louisville City has bolstered their roster with the likes of Dylan Mares and Rasmus Thellufsen and has their eyes set on a third star in 2023. Coach Danny Cruz’s tone following the preseason matches has largely been positive, but now it’s time to take that play into the regular season where the results count. To begin the campaign, the boys in purple are taking a cross-country road trip to California to take on 2021 champs, Orange County SC.

Thurman-Hutchins Park played host to Louisville City’s first local friendly with (some) fans in attendance since a 2021 friendly against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. In the lead up to this match, Coach Cruz’s squad drew against Nashville SC, drew against Sporting KC, won 3-0 against Colorado Springs, drew at New Mexico United, lost 3-1 to Austin FC, and lost 2-1 to the Seattle Sounders. Despite having faced several upper-division foes, Coach Cruz’s tone has been quite optimist

With Joshua Wynder almost certainly leaving Louisville City for Europe this summer, Coach Danny Cruz needed a succession plan. Jordan Scarlett (Twitter/Instagram) has emerged as the one to be occupying the imminent CB opening on the roster. The 6’, 27-year-old Jamaican played for Iona College (2013-2016), Reading United AC (2015), and Lehigh Valley United (2016) before being drafted in the 3rd round of the 2017 MLS SuperDraft and subsequently signing with NYRB2. He made over

Louisville City has bolstered their defensive depth with the signing of Ramzi Qawasmy (Twitter, Instagram). The 23-year-old Landsdale, PA native is a recent grad from Providence College. In five seasons, he started in all 88 of his appearances and netted seven goals, four of which were in 2022. He earned several accolades in his final season, including Preseason All-BIG EAST, Preseason Co-Defensive Player of the Year, United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Men’s Players To Wat

We are a little over two weeks away from the regular season. While that is close, it’s still also too far away for me! I’m eager to see Louisville City take to the pitch again. In preparation for the upcoming season, I took a quick look at the first five matches. To me, this is the period that will set the tone for the season. Will the team live up to the hype or fall short of expectations? How will the team’s play look compared to the past? Are the new signings working? We w

Another Louisville City academy player is working their way into the first-team picture! Issac Cano has signed a USL Academy contract for the 2023 season. Cano, who was notably featured in the club’s piece on academy player involvement this preseason, is a forward who attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School down the road in Lexington. This preseason he had an assist against SKC and started against Colorado Springs. Cano is the 10th player to have been awarded an Academy con

Coach Danny Cruz has had relatively few holes to fill in the roster this off-season. One of the openings was for a 3rd goalkeeper. Oliver Semmle (pronounced zem-luh), a German formerly part of the Karlsruhe setup, has put pen to paper and joined Louisville City for 2023. As a youth player in Germany, his Karlsruhe team won the 2017/2018 Baden Cup. The 24-year-old began his time in the US at Barton Community College before going to Monroe College and finally landing at Marshal